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[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 74 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, I'm surprised any mainstream Western media would have a Card Carrying Communist on their show. Even if it is CPUSA and the issue is horribly cringe.

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 62 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also interesting of them to pick the youngest member of CPUSA to have on

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

And the most attractive.

[–] deforestgump@hexbear.net 33 points 5 months ago

It's the Daily Show. Comedy/satire.

[–] deforestgump@hexbear.net 54 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They did a surprisingly good job of explaining the difference between communism and dem socialism as well as the concept of red-baiting.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is anyone a communist? According to communists, no.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Everyone but me is a liberal, QED

[–] 10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

communism is when you have marketz it was all a misunderstanding really

[–] booty@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

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[–] MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

interviewing a communist from the biggest communist party in America ??? crazy 😐

[–] miz@hexbear.net 56 points 5 months ago (2 children)

biggest

counting feds or not counting feds

[–] MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

doesn't matter

the CPUSA hate them or not are the biggest american communist party and the only one to have outside relations with parties in countries like yes Palestine

everyone else is irrelevant ,the CPUSA also is but at least we know them

[–] jack@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

CPUSA hate them or not are the biggest american communist party

No they absolutely are not, I would guess they are at best the third largest. PSL is definitely much larger and I'm guessing FRSO is too.

and the only one to have outside relations with parties in countries like yes Palestine

Also not true. PSL has tons of links with communist parties around the world, including in Palestine.

Also not true. PSL has tons of links with communist parties around the world, including in Palestine.

no they don't

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The CPUSA is costing on a lot of good work actually communists once made but its modern iteration is actively holding back the american left.

[–] MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wasn’t claiming you didn’t.

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

Doesn't matter as long as they're paying dues.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 5 months ago

'biggest communist party in America' is like saying 'the coldest day on the surface of the sun'.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

PSL is probably the same size or bigger these days. Most of this site can't stand cpusa either, it's structured in a way that you can't fundamentally fix it because there's no mechanisms or levers to pull outside leadership. This site has a lot of PSL members too.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

That's Joe Sims. He's the leader of CPUSA. In September 2024, he made a podcast episode saying the Lenin would vote for Kamala because he thinks it would be easier for labor unions to organize under Kamala than Trump. I'm not even sure why they would engage in such a humiliation ritual, as the podcast episode only garnered around 2000 views in 1 year.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

More like Goodbye Revolution.

[–] lib1@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago

Seemed like a decent interview considering

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Joe Sims is exactly the kind of guy that all decent CPUSA members have been trying to kick out for decades via internal reforms. As part of leadership, he controls the money of the org via a separate apparatus and they all pay themselves through it. This leadership is also revisionist, like actually revisionist by any basic standard, and might as well be the Green Party but even less effective.

The CPUSA members against this graft keep failing, unfortunately. And they are basically not allowed to publicly criticize it due to "demcent", so they will be reticent to share things like this outside of anonymity where you can't verify they are even members. Unless you buy them beers of course.

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

Fred Armisen?

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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